Svetlana Savitskaya

Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya (; born 8 August 1948) is a Russian former aviator and Soviet cosmonaut. She flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982. She is the second woman in space. On her 1984 Soyuz T-12 mission she became the first woman to fly to space twice, and the first woman to perform a spacewalk.Umberto Cavallaro - Women Spacefarers: Sixty Different Paths to Space, Springer, 2017.  In 1996, she was elected to the State Duma and was re-elected four times.

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